Yeah the big schools travel well but the non traditional power house fans don’t, especially if their team is 6-6 and headed to the Idaho Potato Bowl
yup- many of the big conferences go 10 deep into bowl game ties...hence, as you mentioned, a 6-6 Texas Tech team could travel to some mundane bowl game during Christmas week and the fans don’t care...
they are also now allowing teams with losing records into bowl games based on graduation rates....a bowl is allowed to invite a 6-7 team to a bowl game over a 6-6 or 7-6 team if the 6-7 team has a better graduation rate...
Bowl tickets for the Fiesta Bowl are 120 to $735 plus parking. That keeps the attendance in line in my house.